Austin’s Best Breweries of 2024, Power Ranked!

Welcome to Top of the Hops IX

"...the ninth rotation around the sun for our annual Austin Chronicle Brewery Power Rankings, and this is the year..."

Oct. 17, 2024 Food Post by Eric Puga

Ben Kweller to Launch the Zev Award at the Chronicle’s Austin Music Awards

New grant for musicians under 18 honors his son, Dorian Zev Kweller

"...Alongside the Austin Music Awards’ annual Hall of Fame inductions, much-loved Austin..."

Feb. 19, 2024 Music Post by Rachel Rascoe

25 Years Ago, Sublime Arrived in Austin and Cut One of the Decade's Biggest Albums

Local producer Paul Leary put some Austin in the Long Beach surf/punk/dub trio's mix

"...Pedernales Studio in Spicewood and Arlyn Studios here in Austin, between Feb.-April 1996. As Sublime's right-hand man Michael "Miguel"..."

May 7, 2021 Music Feature by Kevin Curtin

Austin Film Festival Witnesses The Obituary of Tunde Johnson

Time travel thriller will be opening night film

"...Austin Film Festival is only a week away, but that's..."

Oct. 17, 2019 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

The Origins of Austin Punk in the Aftermath of the 13th Floor Elevators

Roky Erickson hurtles toward Doug Sahm in Chapter 1, Part 1 of the Austin Punk Chronicles

"...May 10, 2015, Carson Creek Ranch, Austin: Levitation's three-day bacchanal honoring sounds and philosophies wrought at..."

Aug. 2, 2019 Music Feature by Tim Stegall

Guide to Austin Improv

The venues, events, troupes, and individuals who have transformed Austin into a "Yes, and" boomtown

"...spontaneity, practitioners of the unpredictable. They are improvisers, and Austin is overrun with them...."

Aug. 26, 2016 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Keep Austin Weird Festival + 5K

Come celebrate our weird city and don't forget to dress up!

"...Keep Austin Weird and keep our parks beautiful by coming out..."

June 21, 2012 Events Post by Chrontourage

Five Fantastic Options for Filipino Cuisine in Austin

Finding family via bold and delicious feasts

"...For the heart of Austin's culinary culture to survive, we must not just remember..."

June 25, 2021 Food Feature by Adam Wood

Austin Beer for the World Cup

Let your favorite local brew determine who you’ll bet on to win

"...Austin Beerworks – Pearl Snap Pilsner | Argentina: Soccer’s favorite..."

June 13, 2018 Food Post by Eric Puga

Frizzi 2 Fulci Haunts Austin

Fabio Frizzi on melody and mayhem with Lucio Fulci

"...a warm-up to this weekend’s MondoCon, takes place at Austin’s Central Presbyterian Church. For Mondo Creative Director Jay Shaw,..."

Oct. 2, 2015 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Austin City Limits Taping: Spoon

Locals transition seamlessly for PBS staple’s 40th season

"...in the 175-person Hotel Vegas. A tuneup for the Austinites’ first tour in 29 months, the quintet sweat 16..."

Oct. 10, 2014 Music Post by Chase Hoffberger

What's Behind the Delays at Austin's Airport and What's Being Done to Help

Lots of turbulence as airport rebounds from COVID lows

"...travelers to and from our city were delayed at Austin-Bergstrom International Airport (AUS), as they often are, but for..."

July 8, 2022 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Top 10 Austin Breweries

Power ranking the local leaders in craft beer

"...Brewery in Blanco, seeing as they culturally align with Austin's beer scene, as much of their brewing talent decamped..."

June 23, 2017 Food Feature by Eric Puga

Five New Things In Austin's Comedy Scene

A quintuple shot of Lakkalikööri for all my friends

"...triumphant, laughswise, in an impromptu showcase of some of Austin's best stand-ups) – that Hideout has finally supercharged its..."

March 22, 2013 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Austin Cabaret Theatre: Toasting Tony

Russ Lorenson debuted his cabaret tribute to Tony Bennett in Austin, and now he's bringing it back

"...Most folks remember Austin Cabaret Theatre's 2006 gala for the electrifying presence of..."

March 21, 2008 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Salinger

The reclusive author is dragged posthumously into the light.

"...the key to what makes Salinger’s writing so universally adored hardly gets time under the microscope...."

Sept. 20, 2013 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

A Patchwork Planet

How blogging became the (very lucrative) 21st century quilting bee

"...not famous," says Indiana Adams of the fashion blog Adored Austin (www.adoredaustin.com) and founder of the Texas Style Council...."

March 2, 2012 Screens Feature by Melanie Haupt

Special Kaye

Vaudeville, Broadway, TV, film &ndash Kaye Ballard has done it all

"...is still at it, and she's brought it to Austin: a song-and-dance spectacle with stage stars Liliane Montevecchi and..."

Feb. 24, 2012 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Christmas in the Clouds

This Native American romantic comedy, which won the Audience Award at the 2001 Austin Film Festival, arrives in theatres four years late but seasonally right on time.

"...comedy, which won the Audience Award at the 2001 Austin Film Festival, arrives in theatres four years late but..."

Dec. 2, 2005 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Other Worlds Boards the Flight of the Navigator

Beloved '80s sci fi adventure picked as Defender of the Universe

"...Other Worlds Film Festival, Austin's celebration of science fiction cinema and bleeding edge horror,..."

Dec. 1, 2021 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

AFS Cinema Announces Reopening Date, First Lineup of Films

The arthouse mecca brings new titles, immortal classics

"...July 15. AFS Cinema, the two-screen theatre operated by Austin Film Society, will reopen to the public with a..."

June 9, 2021 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

In the Unlikely Event

Judy Blume at BookPeople Saturday

"...has just published her 28th book, and she’s visiting Austin for the first time this weekend. Since 1969, she’s..."

June 13, 2015 Arts Post by Jessi Cape

LaV

A new contender for Austin’s best restaurant

"...If you moved away from Austin before the turn of the millennium and returned recently..."

May 9, 2014 Food Feature by Wes Marshall

Babies in Cakes and Yummy, Yummy Drank

Crow Bar entices with their Mardi Gras party favors

"...Tuesday, and Lord knows these guys like to party! Adored for their festive manifestation of what was once a..."

Feb. 19, 2012 Food Post by Meghan Ruth Speakerman

A-Paul-ling!

Our beloved Soileau makes his (and her and her) mark on Chicago

"...Man of many faces, Austin drag dynamo Paul Soileau took Christeene to the fine..."

Dec. 6, 2011 Qmmunity Post by Kate X Messer

Magic Carpet Ride

Johnny Depp brings his passion project to the Austin Film Festival

"...gone falling-down gonzo, which was the case following the Austin Film Festival's regional premiere of Johnny Depp's pet Hunter..."

Oct. 28, 2011 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

This Space Brought to You By Non-Four-Lettered Festivals

News from AFF, aGLIFF, Cine las Americas, and the Austin Jewish Film Festival

"...with other festivals. Let's remedy that, shall we? The Austin Film Festival and aGLIFF and others have some news,..."

March 3, 2010 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Man of a Thousand Faces

Maverick filmmaker Vincent Gallo takes a time-out and turns his attention to music

"...Equally detested and adored, Gallo is as well-known for dating Paris Hilton, modeling..."

Nov. 30, 2007 Screens Feature by Mark Fagan

Curious?

The 17th annual Austin Gay and Lesbian International Film Festival: a preview

"...Adored: Diary of a Porn StarD: Marco Filiberti; with Marco..."

Aug. 27, 2004 Screens Feature by Diana Welch

Frank Kozik (1962-2023), the Man Behind a Poster Revolution

How Austin shaped the punk artist behind print mania

"...generation," and that conscience will forever be associated with Austin...."

May 12, 2023 Arts Post by Richard Whittaker

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